The USC Information Sciences Institute launched a second physical site of the Internet root server it manages on May 2, greatly boosting the service's ability to fulfill an unusual, dual mandate. Root servers are pivotal to Net operations, and the USC ISI service performs operational heavy lifting while supporting groundbreaking Net research. "We serve a different need" than most other root service operators, says Terry Benzel, ISI deputy director for its computer networks division. "We'll be able to delve deeper into new technologies at the same time that we carry our weight in name resolution."
The new Miami location caps a five-year effort to re-architect and upgrade the original Los Angeles site. Called B-Root, the USC ISI-managed service is one of the original, authoritative root servers worldwide - and the only one managed directly by researchers.
Despite their underground connotations, root servers form the uppermost layer in an inverse Net operations pyramid. As message points-of-entry, they answer other servers' requests for contact IP addresses about global domains such as .com and .org, and for country codes such as .ca, .jp and .in. Root servers solely return information about these highest-level names, never transmitting individual messages such as email and web traffic.Read More
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11:00am - 12:00pm PDTThe USC Information Sciences Institute launched a second physical site of the Internet root server it manages on May 2, greatly boosting the service's ability to fulfill an unusual, dual mandate. Root servers are pivotal to Net operations, and the USC ISI service performs operational heavy lifting while supporting groundbreaking Net research. "We serve a different need" than most other root service operators, says Terry Benzel, ISI deputy director for its computer networks division. "We'll be able to delve deeper into new technologies at the same time that we carry our weight in name resolution."
The new Miami location caps a five-year effort to re-architect and upgrade the original Los Angeles site. Called B-Root, the USC ISI-managed service is one of the original, authoritative root servers worldwide - and the only one managed directly by researchers.
Despite their underground connotations, root servers form the uppermost layer in an inverse Net operations pyramid. As message points-of-entry, they answer other servers' requests for contact IP addresses about global domains such as .com and .org, and for country codes such as .ca, .jp and .in. Root servers solely return information about these highest-level names, never transmitting individual messages such as email and web traffic.Read More
